Table Of ContentAdvances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 976
Yizheng Wang Editor
Transient Receptor
Potential Canonical
Channels and Brain
Diseases
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Contents
1 TRP Channel Classification ......................................................... 1
Hongyu Li
2 TRPC Channel Structure and Properties ................................... 9
Shengjie Feng
3 TRPC Channel Downstream Signaling Cascades ...................... 25
Zhuohao He
4 TRPC Channels in Health and Disease ....................................... 35
Yilin Tai, Shenglian Yang, Yong Liu, and Wei Shao
5 TRPC Channels and Programmed Cell Death........................... 47
Jian Zhou and Yichang Jia
6 TRPC Channels and Stroke ......................................................... 61
Junbo Huang
7 TRPC Channels and Alzheimer’s Disease .................................. 73
Rui Lu, Qian He, and Junfeng Wang
8 TRPC Channels and Parkinson’s Disease .................................. 85
Pramod Sukumaran, Yuyang Sun, Anne Schaar,
Senthil Selvaraj, and Brij B. Singh
9 TRPC Channels and Neuron Development,
Plasticity, and Activities ................................................................ 95
Yilin Tai and Yichang Jia
10 TRPC Channels and Brain Inflammation .................................. 111
Yoshito Mizoguchi and Akira Monji
11 TRPC Channels and Epilepsy...................................................... 123
Fang Zheng
12 TRPC Channels and Mental Disorders ...................................... 137
Karina Griesi-Oliveira, Angela May Suzuki,
and Alysson Renato Muotri
13 TRPC Channels and Cell Proliferation ...................................... 149
Cheng Zhan and Yu Shi
14 TRPC Channels and Glioma........................................................ 157
Shanshan Li and Xia Ding
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Contributors
Xia Ding Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, National Cancer Institute, NIH,
MD, USA
Shengjie Feng Department of Physiology, University of California, San
Francisco, CA, USA
Karina Griesi-Oliveira Hospital Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Qian He Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological
Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Zhuohao He Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute
on Aging and Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Junbo Huang Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute, Toronto, ON,
Canada
Yichang Jia School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Peking-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China
IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Tsinghua, Beijing, China
Hongyu Li Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Shanshan Li Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Yong Liu Center of Cognition and Brain Science, Institute of Basic Medical
Science, Beijing, China
Rui Lu Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological
Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Yoshito Mizoguchi Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Saga
University, Saga, Japan
Akira Monji Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Saga
University, Saga, Japan
Alysson Renato Muotri Department of Pediatrics and Department of
Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego School
of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA
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viii Contributors
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
UCSD Stem Cell Program, Institute for Genomic Medicine, New York, NY,
USA
Anne Schaar Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and
Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Senthil Selvaraj Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine
and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Wei Shao Center of Cognition and Brain Science, Institute of Basic Medical
Science, Beijing, China
Yu Shi Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan
University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
Brij B. Singh Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and
Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Pramod Sukumaran Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of
Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks,
ND, USA
Yuyang Sun Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and
Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Angela May Suzuki Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology,
Bioscience Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Yilin Tai Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Junfeng Wang Research and Development of Biogen, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Shenglian Yang Center of Cognition and Brain Science, Institute of Basic
Medical Science, Beijing, China
Cheng Zhan Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan
University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
Fang Zheng Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of
Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Science, Little Rock, AR,
USA
Jian Zhou Laboratory of Neural Signal Transduction, Institute of
Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Shanghai, China
1
TRP Channel Classification
Hongyu Li
Abstract
The transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels are named after the
discovery of the photo-transducted channels in Drosophila. TRPs, acti-
vated by various extracellular and intracellular stimuli, play a plethora of
physiological and pathological roles. There are seven families of TRPs
including TRPC (canonical), TRPV (vanilloid), TRPM (melastatin),
TRPA (ankyrin), TRPP (polycystin), TRPML (mucolipin), and TRPN
(Drosophila NOMPC) in mammals. In yeast, the eighth TRP family was
recently identified and named as TRPY. We here briefly summarize the
classification and function of TRP cation channel superfamily.
Keywords
Transient receptor potential (TRP) protein • trp gene • Ion channel
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are TRPP (polycystin), TRPML (mucolipin), and
wildly expressed on the plasma membrane in TRPN (Drosophila NOMPC). In yeast, the eighth
numerous types of cells, including neurons. The TRP family was recently identified and named as
trp gene was initially identified in Drosophila TRPY in which Y stands for yeast. TRPC, TRPV,
melanogaster in the late 1960s. The first human TRPM, and TRPA are classified as Group1 TRP
homolog was reported in 1995. Since then about channels which have the strongest similarity with
30 trp genes and more than 100 TRP channels the Drosophila TRP. The Group2 TRP channels,
have been identified. There are seven families of including TRPP and TRPML, have distal rele-
TRP (a phylogenetic tree of human TRP channels vance to Drosophila TRP. The classification of
is shown in Fig. 1.1): TRPC (canonical), TRPV TRP superfamily is based on the differences in
(vanilloid), TRPM (melastatin), TRPA (ankyrin), their amino acid sequences and topological struc-
tures, while it is difficult to differentiate the func-
tion of individual family and member simply
H. Li (*)
Columbia University Medical Center, according to the classification. Actually, TRPs
New York, NY 10032, USA play a plethora of physiological and pathological
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Fig. 1.1 A phylogenetic
tree of human TRP
channels (Modified
from [40]). TRP
channels fall into seven
families, based on
full-length sequence
comparisons of human
TRP channel proteins.
TRPNs are not present
in mammals and trpc2 is
a pseudogene in human.
intracellular stimuli, such as changes of tempera- TRPCs fall into four subsets: TRPC1, TRPC2,
ture, pH, or osmolarity, injury, depletion of cal- TRPC3/6/7, and TRPC4/5.
cium stores, as well as volatile chemicals and TRPC1 protein shows a broad expression
cytokines. Once activated, TRP channels, with across different cell types [9]. It can interact with
homo- or hetero- tetrameric configurations, func- all other human TRPC proteins (TRPC3–7) to
tion as an integrator of several signaling path- form a heterotetrameric channel [16, 23, 35, 55–
ways to elicit a serial of responses. TRPs share 57, 68]. TRPC1 is also able to interact with mem-
common structure features, including six putative bers in other families of TRP channel, such as
transmembrane spanning domains with intracel- TRPP2 [65] and TRPV4/6 [36, 54]. It is reported
lular C and N termini and a pore lining between that TRPC1 and other TRP channels form a
the fifth and sixth transmembrane domains [17, receptor-activated channel. For example, TRPC1/
39, 43, 51]. TRPP2 channel is activated by G-protein-coupled
receptors (GPCRs). TRPC1 is also activated by
hormone, orexin A, which is associated with the
1.1 TRPC Channels regulation of sleep/wake-up states, alertness, and
appetite [27]. As expressed broadly, TRPC1
The TRPC family is the closest homolog to channel is related with many physiological
Drosophila TRP channels. The TRPC family functions.
consists of seven members (TRPC1–7) with The trpc2 is a pseudogene in humans; how-
trpc2 being a pseudogene in human beings [38]. ever, in rodents it plays an important role in pher-
The seven mammalian homologs share ≥30% omone detection via the vomeronasal sensory
amino acid identity within the N-terminal 750– neurons (VSN) [66]. In these cells, TRPC2 pro-
900 amino acids. Based on sequence alignments tein is mainly localized to the sensory microvilli,
and functional comparisons, the mammalian which are specialized for chemical signal detection.
